Work brings with it a wide variety of challenges. Whether you’re in a research lab, an industrial plant, or any other kind of similarly heavy-duty workspace, you’ll be faced with a wide array of challenges on a regular basis that require a diverse set of skills and tools for you to be able to meet them. More broadly, if you’re a manager at a major workplace like this, you’ll also realize that each worker’s talents and needs are different. Meaning, all of your equipment requirements to be adaptable to these differences.
With so many moving parts to consider around the modern workplace, versatility is simply indispensable to all of your industrial workplace furniture. RDM Industrial Products proudly build industrial-quality furniture and tools for all of our clients. Among our most important products are our ergonomic lift tables.
Below, we’ll share with you some important information about the different kinds of adjustable height tables and workbenches that we can make for you. We’ll include, what some of their most useful features are. And, most importantly, how they can make your workplace a better, more pleasant, more efficient and more smooth-running place.
What Are Ergonomic Lift Tables and How Do They Work?
RDM Ergonomic Lift Table – Adjustable Height Table – Four-Leg, 1,000 lb capacity Hydraulic Lift.
For starters, just what is a lift table or workbench? Simply put, it is a table or workbench whose legs can be either lengthened or shortened at will. There are various ways to change the height of its work surface off the ground.
Height can be changed either manually, via a hand crank or a mechanism to or another mechanism to lengthen table legs. Or height can be adjusted automatically, via a special hydraulic motor.
You’ll also hear the word “ergonomic” thrown around a lot in reference to these tables. That simply means that they are all designed with worker convenience and comfort in mind. The ability to adjust the height is obviously one element of calibrating the perfect comfort level, as different workers are of different heights or may prefer to work either sitting or standing down, but other features — like leg rests, for example — also exist to improve comfort.
What Types of Lift Tables Can We Create For You?
With that very general overview in place, here are a few of the many different kinds of factory-direct lift tables that RDM can make for you or your workplace. As you go down this list, you’ll begin to get a feel for the impressive versatility that our tables and workbenches offer:
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Stainless Steel Lift Tables:
The stainless steel adjustable height table is the bread and butter of RDM’s whole empire of height-adjustable furniture. We can make virtually any kind of stainless steel workbench or table precisely crafted to your needs, and our selection of models is enormous. These tables also teem with other important features that will be discussed below.
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I-Frame Tables:
These tables have telescoping legs and come with a manual crank. You can use the crank to set the height where you need it and then lock the legs in place.
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L-Shaped Tables:
These tables are shaped like a capital letter “L.” Due to that shape, they can be an ideal setting for teams of two to work together simultaneously on a project.
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Light Tables:
If you need extra light, an adjustable height light table can beam light out from under its surface for you. Again, you can modify the height as needed either manually or electronically.
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Tilting Tables:
For those times when a flat, vertical surface just won’t do, these tables’ surfaces can tilt and remain fixed at an angle. This could be perfect for engineers looking at building plans, artists, and so on. If you like, we can also make height-adjustable light tables with tilting surfaces.
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Cantilevered Ergonomic Lift Workstations:
A cantilevered bench or desk is one whose surface is only fixed at one end. One of RDM’s cantilevered ergonomic lift workstations is the ES-107P. It comes with a manual hand crank to raise or lower its height, but can also be outfitted with an electric motor to do the same. Its lift capacity is 1,000 pounds for the manual version but can be varied from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds if you choose the version with the motor.
This list is only a taste of what we can offer you. For the full course, please check out our complete selection of ergonomic lift tables here.
Some Key Features
The grand versatility and abundance of options available to you don’t end simply at the broad kinds of tables that we have on offer. We can also custom design ergonomic lift tables for you with all kinds of special features.
Some of these features have already been alluded to when discussing the kinds of lift tables that we make, but here are some of the more important features in detail. As you go through them, you’ll get a better idea of just how quality-designed lift tables can make your work environment a better place:
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Surface Materials:
Due to its durability, stainless steel is our most popular surface material, but we can also use other materials like wood and plastic laminate. We can also modify and specially design stainless steel surfaces to be either chemical-resistant, flame-resistant, or ESD static resistant. This is especially for stainless steel workbenches on which you plan to carry out chemical and other scientific experiments.
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Frame Materials:
Stainless steel is also an extremely common frame material for our tables. Its strength makes it a natural choice to hold everything together. Tubular steel and aluminum are also popular options.
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Foot Rests:
Footrests are a simple but important ergonomic feature. Many of our tables come standard with a cross member on which you can rest your feet while working. Even models that don’t have them can be custom designed to include them.
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Racks, Drawers, and Shelves:
To enable you to have extra things close at hand while you work, we can make stainless steel lift tables for you with either overhead racks, like the F-107P, drawers, like the A-107P-SS-EXEC., or shelves, like the A-107P-SS-CLG.
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Weight Bearing Capacity:
The weight-bearing capacity of or lift tables varies depending on the materials out of which the table is constructed and the type of lift system that it employs. The usual range is between 1,000 and 3,000 pounds. However, tables with tilting surfaces can also bear between 250 and 500 pounds as they tilt.
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Size:
Surface size and length are also highly customizable. We can make models with surface detentions each as low as 30 inches to as high as 144 inches, depending on what the architecture of each particular model will allow The A-107P-SS-CLG Stainless Steel Workbench is an outstanding example of this because it is especially long, has a shelf and an expertly-designed hydraulic lift.
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Lighting:
Our stainless steel adjustable height tables can be equipped with either overhead light booms or with light fixtures right next to the surface. Of course. adjustable height light tables will have light coming from beneath the table surface itself. You can even customize the color of the light.
Conclusion
With all of these options, features, styles, and uses at your fingertips, ergonomic lift tables will become an indispensable part of your workplace the moment you choose to introduce them. And if you’ve already had a need for a height adjustable stainless steel workbench in the past, then you already know.
Regardless of whether you’re new to the simple but versatile lift table or you’re an old hand, know that we at RDM have more than four decades of experience crafting world-class industrial furniture for our customers.
All of our products are proudly manufactured in the USA, and we are happy to get to work for you.